Just like the first post introducing the Born probabilities has a comment pointing out that the probabilities fall out of the Taylor expansion on state evolution and are not in fact mysterious at all. (Alternatively you can show this from the decision theory formulation.)
Can you link to this please? And explain the decision theory thing if that’s not part of the comment you’re referring to?
Apparently LessWrong comments are not indexed by google, so I don’t have a non-time-intensive way of tracking down that comment. I remember reading it in one of the earlier posts in the quantum sequence.
Here’s a paper by David Wallace on Deutsch’s decision theory formulation of the Born probabilities:
Apparently LessWrong comments are not indexed by google, so I don’t have a non-time-intensive way of tracking down that comment.
Comments should be indexed by Google (I’ve seen comments show up in my search results before), but maybe not completely? Can you send a note to the LW team (telling them why you think comments are not being indexed) to see if there’s anything they can do about this? In the meantime, have you tried LW’s own search feature (the magnifying glass icon at the top)?
Here’s a paper by David Wallace on Deutsch’s decision theory formulation of the Born probabilities
I actually wrote a comment about that back in 2009 but haven’t revisited it since. Have you read the response/counterargument I linked to, and still find Wallace’s paper compelling?
Comments should be indexed by Google. I just went to 5 very old posts with hundreds of comments and randomly searched text-strings from them on Google, and all of them returned a result:
If anyone can find any comments that are not indexed, please let me know, and I will try to fix it, but it seems (to me) that all comments are indexed for now.
I’m not happy with the Barbour post either, but the rest of the sequence seems better. There was a post on this topic.
Can you link to this please? And explain the decision theory thing if that’s not part of the comment you’re referring to?
Apparently LessWrong comments are not indexed by google, so I don’t have a non-time-intensive way of tracking down that comment. I remember reading it in one of the earlier posts in the quantum sequence.
Here’s a paper by David Wallace on Deutsch’s decision theory formulation of the Born probabilities:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2718
Comments should be indexed by Google (I’ve seen comments show up in my search results before), but maybe not completely? Can you send a note to the LW team (telling them why you think comments are not being indexed) to see if there’s anything they can do about this? In the meantime, have you tried LW’s own search feature (the magnifying glass icon at the top)?
I actually wrote a comment about that back in 2009 but haven’t revisited it since. Have you read the response/counterargument I linked to, and still find Wallace’s paper compelling?
Comments should be indexed by Google. I just went to 5 very old posts with hundreds of comments and randomly searched text-strings from them on Google, and all of them returned a result:
Example
Example
More recent example
If anyone can find any comments that are not indexed, please let me know, and I will try to fix it, but it seems (to me) that all comments are indexed for now.